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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68301</law_id><section_number>55.1-1914</section_number><catch_line>Validity of condominium instruments; discrimination prohibited</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Common Interest Communities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="19">Virginia Condominium Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Creation, Alteration, and Termination of Condominiums</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> All provisions of the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments shall be deemed severable, and any unlawful provision of such <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments shall be void. <a id="paragraph-247095" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1914/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No provision of the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments shall be deemed void by reason of the rule against perpetuities. <a id="paragraph-247096" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1914/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No restraint on alienation shall discriminate or be used to discriminate on any basis prohibited under the Virginia Fair Housing <span class="dictionary">Law</span> (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Declaration of policy" href="/36-96.1/">36-96.1</a> et seq.). <a id="paragraph-247097" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1914/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Subject to the provisions of subsection C, the rule of property <span class="dictionary">law</span> known as the rule restricting unreasonable restraints on alienation shall not be applied to defeat any provision of the condominium instruments restraining the alienation of <span class="dictionary">condominium units</span> other than such units as may be restricted to residential use only. <a id="paragraph-247098" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1914/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1974, c. 416, &#xA7; 55-79.52; 1975, c. 415; 1998, cc. 32, 454; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
